IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE
St. Clair County Clerk Thomas Holbrook, in cooperation with St. Clair County State’s Attorney James
Gomric, St. Clair County Sheriff Rick Watson, Illinois Attorney General’s Office, and the U.S.
Attorney’s Office has established a reporting system to assist the public in reporting violations of the
voting process in St. Clair County. This system has been established to report violations of the voting
process in St. Clair County.
Persons may email their complaints to VoterIntegrity@co.st-clair.il.us , or provide written
correspondence to the St. Clair County Clerk’s Office, Attention: Election Department, 10 Public
Square, Belleville, IL, 62220, or call the hotline at 618-825-2366. All emails received will be sent to the
St. Clair County State’s Attorney, St. Clair County Sheriff, Illinois Attorney General’s Office, and the
United States Attorney’s Office, and St. Clair County Clerk’s Election Department automatically. All
letters and complaints filed by phone at the Election Department will be documented, scanned and
automatically distributed through the same voter integrity email system.
St. Clair County Clerk Thomas Holbrook stated, “Our voter integrity hotline is an integral part of
providing a fair and open election process here in St. Clair County.
Investigators will be dispersed to polling places during voting, and at the St. Clair County Board of
Elections and East Saint Louis Board of Elections during tabulation.
Sheriff Rick Watson has assigned Sheriff Deputies to investigate complaints as they come in.
“We need free and fair elections without unlawful interference,” said Sheriff Watson.
CONTACT INFORMATION: St. Clair County Clerk Thomas Holbrook at (618) 825-2377; Sheriff
Richard Watson at (618) 277-3505, State’s Attorney James Gomric at (618) 277-3892, and F.B.I. at (618)
397-4401.
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